Category Archives: NaNoWriMo

November is National Novel Writing Month

Introducing Nellie the NaNo Mouse (take your picture with her!)

tl;dr: Take your picture with Nellie the NaNo mouse (PDF, download, print out, cut out) doing something NaNoWriMo-related (novel planning, brainstorming, writing (in November), attending a NaNo prep session or other event) and post it here! Back story: Once upon a time, a mouse lived within the NaNoWriMo Library of the Imagination. Her name was […]

October 8, 2015 – 6:15 am | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaNoWriMo | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

Story beats and genres: NaNo Prep Workshop – 2015-10-03

Anastasia Zoldak (anastasia007) gave the first of our four 2015 preparatory workshops today (2015-10-03), looking at advice for plotters and pantsers, how to use story beats and the consideration of genre. Anastasia presented the workshop since her collaborator Todd Hogan (writertodd07) was unable to make it. Twenty five enthusiastic participants, including a fair number of […]

October 3, 2015 – 6:11 pm | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaNoWriMo | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)

Inter-regional word war vs. Ottawa County Grand Rapids, Michigan

The Naperville region has challenged Ottawa County Grand Rapids, Michigan to an inter-regional word war (based on average word count), with a side-bet that the losing region must record themselves singing the regional song of the winning region.

November 15, 2014 – 9:15 pm | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaNoWriMo | Tagged , | Comments (0)

A full slate of preparatory workshops for 2014

Every year people around the world take the plunge and become an author during the month of November. If you’ve always wanted to write a novel, or try to write a novel, then this is the year to take advantage of National Novel Writing Month (aka NaNoWriMo). It is a free, annual challenge that takes […]

September 26, 2014 – 4:58 pm | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaNoWriMo | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

What a great NaNo season 2013!

See the pictures from our 2013 TGIO: [shashin type=”photo” id=”79,99,73,49,41,40,39,37,32,28,18,83″ size=”small” columns=”max” order=”user” position=”center”] It was a great NaNo season and a wonderful Thank-Goodness-It’s-Over party! Many thanks to Ky (scrapacat) for contributing this beautiful scarf she made, to Steve (Whitey) for contributing a very handsome handmade journal (which I won in the raffle), and to […]

December 8, 2013 – 8:45 am | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaNoWriMo, NaperWriMo | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

A fun kick-off to the 2013 NaNo season

Saturday, 26 October 2013 was our Naperville region’s kick-off party. It was a delicious pot-luck event, with plenty of savory and sweet delights, including Frank’s chili, my beef stew, Kel’s fruit salad smoothie, Todd’s best chocolate chip cookies and many, many more dishes. We about forty people in attendance at the Naperville Municipal Center (not […]

October 27, 2013 – 6:47 pm | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaNoWriMo, NaperWriMo | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Katherine Lato shows how Characters are Story

Author Katherine Lato (aka KatherineWriting) led participants through her preparatory workshop Characters are story. This informative workshop delved into many aspects of characters: how to make them feel real to the reader, how to keep them interesting, how best to work them into scenes, how to handle their back story, etc. There were plenty of […]

October 5, 2013 – 9:04 pm | By NewMexicoKid | Posted in NaNoWriMo, NaperWriMo, Writing | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)